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2023-03-11 05:08:00
Apply now Job no: 493523Work type: Faculty Salaried Visitor Full TimeLocation: South Hadley, MACategories: Faculty The Mount Holyoke College Music Department seeks a full-time one-year Interim Director of Orchestral Studies & Visiting Lecturer in Music. This is a one-year sabbatical replacement starting July 1, 2023. The position entails conducting the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra and teaching one classroom course each semester […]
2021-09-18 08:53:16
Combining Western classical with Native American musical culture: I chat to composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate
[…] a composer. But years later, he still loves what he does.His current project is a new opera, Shell Shaker: A Chickasaw Opera, which is based on a Chickasaw legend about how they received the shell shaker as their main percussion instrument. But Jerod sees it as a classic hero story, a journey into an unknown place to discover themselves, so his opera will express Chickasaw culture in classical archetypes. The work was commissioned by Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra and premiering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst College on 4 March 2022. For the libretto, Jerod is working with Lokosh (John D Hinson) as interpreter/translator for the original Chickasaw, but Jerod explains that traditionally Native American languages did not have poetry so that they are creating something new. He has scored just over 50% of the work and is currently 'working like a mad man'.He tells me about a Chickasaw song […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2021-02-17 17:04:00
Hollywood’s Hottest Young Director Is A Chinese Woman Who Makes Westerns
Chloé Zhao came to L.A. from Beijing to finish high school and go to college, got a poli-sci degree from Mount Holyoke, went to NYU film school, and ended up making three feature films at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. One of those caught the eye of Frances McDormand — and now Nomadland is a […]
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2020-10-29 02:29:35
original article link Members of the Mount Holyoke faculty, such as Tianhui Ng (pictured), are working with the Pioneer Valley Symphony to examine contributions of women composers. By Kevin McCaffrey A challenge for symphony orchestras is how to expose audiences who are comfortable with the standard set of canonical composers to new music and to music […]
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